VacationSelector

Inverness or Stockholm?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

InvernessStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
InvernessStockholm
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 55 points.55
InvernessStockholm
Score2176
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1141,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1136
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 49 points.49
InvernessStockholm
Score2069
Museums within 10 km674
Museums within 2 km of centre547
Share of museums within 2 km %8364
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 49 points.49
InvernessStockholm
Score1564
Drinking venues within 4 km1131,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre98689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8763
Nightclubs within 4 km4106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 32 points.32
InvernessStockholm
Score941
Protected land share 50 km %127
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %8877
Park area within 2 km3 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 57 points.57
InvernessStockholm
Score057
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km3 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 55 points.55
InvernessStockholm
Score2479
Notable places within 2 km16357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
InvernessStockholm
Score5457
Price level global84.980.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
InvernessStockholm
Score5253
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months15
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromInvernessStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
4 h 15 m
€126-131
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
3 h 50 m
€121-161
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 20 m
€39-52
ARN · 36 km
PalmaPMI
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
3 h 35 m
€193
ARN · 36 km
RigaRIX
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
1 h 15 m
€37-38
ARN · 36 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 40 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DublinDUB
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureInvernessStockholm
Official languageEnglishSwedish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation7 m22 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessStockholm
City population47,380984,748
People per km²2,2895,260
Museums within 10 km3266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre1581
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.